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A popular book for astronomy lovers
At the beginning of 1972, the second additional edition of the book “Observations of the Starry Sky” by the experienced teacher and popularizer of astronomy M. M. Dagev will be published.
The book is intended for a wide range of readers, primarily schoolchildren. Naturally, you can use the icons on it with the basics of astronomical knowledge; observation lovers will receive useful instructions, advice and the necessary reference data.
The book begins with a description of the constellations. Using schematic maps of small areas of the starry sky, the author shows how to find others using one familiar constellation, for example, focusing on the constellation Ursa Major, the appearance of which is familiar to everyone, to find the constellations Ursa Minor with the Polar Star, Cassipen, Perseus, Auriga, Leo, Gemini and others. After reading this chapter and using the moving map of the starry sky attached to the book, the reader will be able to navigate well among the constellations to find various interesting objects in the sky, described in the next chapter. Among these objects are double and multiple stars, sometimes forming red color combinations (orange and blue star, bluish and red, etc.), physical variable stars that change their brightness as a result of brown physical processes occurring on them, various kinds of star clusters, gas and dust nebulae. The author gives recommendations for initial amateur observations of these luminaries and indicates sources in which the reader can find instructions for more advanced observations.
A special chapter is dedicated to the luminaries changing their position against the background of the starry sky. This is a popular story about the planets of the solar system and their satellites, about comets and meters. Describing Venus, Mars, Jupiter and other planets, their movement across the sky, the physical conditions prevailing on them, the author introduces us to the latest achievements of science obtained,
in part, with the help of mechanical automatic stations and other spacecraft. A separate paragraph of this chapter talks about the Moon, and the appendix contains a photograph of the visible hemisphere of the Moon and a schematic map of the main formations on its surface.
The new edition of the book has been supplemented with a section on the independent production of a simple homemade telescope refractor.
The book ends with a short but carefully compiled reference note. Here is a list of constellations visible in the USSR, and a list of double and multiple stars, and a list of variable stars recommended for initial observations, and information about major planets, as well as a number of other reference materials.
The book will be useful for beginners in astronomy.
I. E. Evgeniev